Syllabus.
The syllabus is designed to read heavily in material chosen by the seminar
director during the bulk of the seminar, yielding to the research projects
of the participants at the end. The syllabus provides general topics and
core readings, including some items that form the basis of a supplementary
bibliography that will be under development throughout the seminar. The
seminar's web page will contain this bibliography, which will be updated
periodically.

N.B. Required readings will be made available
through the UNC bookstore. Additional readings will be accessible through
password-protected pages of the seminar's web site.

Sponsorship and Local Arrangements

Venue. The seminar will be held on the
campus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, which will be the
institutional sponsor, with cooperating sponsorship of the Institute for
the Arts and Humanities, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Carolina
Seminar for Comparative Islamic Studies (CSCIS). Seminar space will be
provided by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, which offers facilities
that will make the lengthy seminar sessions more physically congenial for
the participants, and which are centrally located on the campus.